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Jigolo Har Megiddo · Ghost

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 27 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART C, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesBS4CFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Jigolo Har Megiddo on drums

129 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 185 BPM, 4:11 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
39/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-23, kick and crashes through bars 24-27, hi-hat through bars 28-45, kick and crashes through bars 46-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-86, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9, 28-30 and 50-52, and 4 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |o-----o-----o-----o---o-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Jigolo Har Megiddo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 27, 49, 53, 69, 77 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, M (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Break -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Jigolo Har Megiddo?

185 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Jigolo Har Megiddo hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Jigolo Har Megiddo?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 27, 49, 53, 69, 77 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED